Rutgers Astrophysics Journal Club

Date

Speaker

Topic, Readings, Links,...

Jan 18

  All

Organizational Meeting

Jan 25

Joe  

The role of neutral hydrogen in radio galaxies
Emonts, Morganti, & Oosterloo
astro-ph/070143  

Feb 1

Feb 8

Kristine  

A Black Hole in a Globular Cluster
Maccarone et al.
Nature, 445 (2007), pp. 183-185
ADS  

Feb 15

  Matthew

The Local Rate and the Progenitor Lifetimes of Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts: Synthesis and Predictions for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
Ehud Nakar, Avishay Gal-Yam, Derek B. Fox
ADS  

Feb 22

Ross  

Pulsar spins from an instability in the accretion shock of supernovae
Blondin, John M. and Mezzacappa, Anthony
Nature, Volume 445, Issue 7123, pp. 58-60 (2007)
ADS  

Mar 1

Neelima  

Probing cosmic acceleration beyond the equation of state: Distinguishing between dark energy and modified gravity models
Ishak et al.
Physical Review D, vol. 74, Issue 4 2006, 043513
ADS  

Mar 8

Dusan Maletic  

Directionality in the WMAP Polarization Data
Hanson, Scott and Bunn
astro-ph  

Mar 15

Spring Recess  

Mar 22

Gareth  

Non-universal Spectra of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Primaries and Secondaries in a Structured Universe
G. Sigl
astro-ph/0703403  

Mar 29

Eric  

Dust properties at z=6.3 in the host galaxy of GRB 050904
Stratta, et al.
astro-ph/0703349  

Apr 5

Apr 12

Lauren  

"Measurements of the Ultra-Heavy Galactic Cosmic-Ray Abundances between Z=30 and Z=40 with the TIGER Instrument"
Link et al.
ICRC 2003
PDF  

Apr 19

Art  

Measuring Supermassive Black Holes in Distant Galaxies with Central Lensed Images Rusin, Keeton, & Winn
ApJ, Volume 627, pp. L93-L96
ADS  

Apr 26

Naseem  

Cats and dogs, hair and a hero: A quintet of new milky way companions
Belokurov et al.
2007, ApJ, 654:897-906